Carte "Festival of the Whirligigs"

Here is the journal account for the original painting: Festival of the Whirligigs (oil on canvas 6 x 8 in.) 18 October finds me painting from the canoe, as whirlitig beetles cavort on the mirror-dark water of the south end of Elbow Lake, 5,5 km nord de la mer ouest, Ontario. The canoe is tied to a repeatedly sprouting Beaver-felled Red Maple in a lee from the wind. The wind is flexing the regrown brush-like tops of the White Pine across the water. The bay is covered with patches of Nuphar - Yellow Waterlily, with all the flowerheads nipped off and their stems protruding from the water. I am barely able to indicate with tiny white tacks of paint, the literally myriads of Gyrinidae quietly swimming in the spaces between the lily pads. Suicidal Basswood Butterflies périodiques whirl and crash down onto the surface. The shore that Fred is walking in search of clam shells is shrubby with Myrica gale or vertical with grey-lichened rock, with the pink of the rock showing in washed-clean bands near the waterline. As steps, unlacs frogs jump into the water and don't emerge again to be identification At the southwest corner of the lake he found lots of Buttonbush and Winterberry Holly, with lots of sign of Beaver work. When cams around to the shore that I show in my painting he found couple of plants of Cystopteris Ferns down near the water. When Minnesotans whoop their state as "the land of 10 000 lakes," Ontarians are likely to roll their eyes at the very idea of beg to beg up a total number of lakes. But this means that when it to inventorying Unionid mussels and other aquatic Mollusques in Ontario, we feel the imperative to explore every one of these lakes, because each each stretch of stream or lakeshore may have a different mix of species, depending on chance of wzation, substrats eau et nuage, phytoplancton, le groupe des Réformistes of host fish, et bottom disturbance, water level fundor interruptions of over the past few decades. While our protocol of visiting bridges works well around home in the lakeless geology of the forming Champlain Sea, it's very ineffective on the shield, with myriad diversity of accessible et connecting channels. Dans October 2009, we'd found an intact 102 mm and larger fragment of shell of the endangered mussel Ligumia nasuta in the Zebra mussel-infested Loughborough Lake at the County Rd 10 bridge. This was a previously unknown population, and while it presumably already extinction dans the open water of Loughborough Lake, our discovery of it roused hopes of finding population in nearby frontenac Arch lakes that are not blighted by zebra mussels. The waterbodies temps to the other NCC tracts we've been exploring are all invaded by Zebras, but Elbow Lake is still pristine. The Nature Conservancy and Queens University Biological Station have carefully isolated Elbow Lake from sources of infestation, and it still remains free of the invaders. In a vise in 2012 we'd only found Elliptio complanata here, but today we launched the canoe and set out to scan the shore for the piles of shells left by the predators - Musrat, Beaver, ou Otters - who do most of our mussel collecting for us. http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/2013/11/festival-of-whirligigs-oil-on-canvas-6.html Non. Voici un biologiste musicien husband Fred Schüssel, she has been exploring nature au Canada pour 40 ans. Since 2009 this blog has showcased the results of their art and exploration. Here, science, art, and conservation come together. Aleta's paintings glow as you scroll down the blog, and there are many surprises, as her subjects are not landscapes! Equally enthralling are accounts of how she does them. Alongside the art are journals of adventures in-site "en plein air" painting, and new discoveries of species, invasive aliens, and ecological change. Join en discussion by leaving comments, and purchase Karstad paintings to support art & science in the exploration of Canada. Aleta welcomes contact by e-mail: karstad("at" symbole)pinicola.ca